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REPS (Page 2)
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Under the system of taxation, individuals were charged what it cost to produce a product. Then, on top of this, a tax was added. So, if ever there was a quantity or quality that guaranteed the stability of money (gold, labor, etc); tax went above and beyond this, by design. This is to say, taxation could only be backed by a person’s death.
The founders of the old system knew this when they specified that taxation should only be used to raise an army. Because, in order to kill, one must be dead already. Otherwise, to kill another is to kill oneself… or to know what it would be like to be killed. And this knowledge of death is equivalent to death itself. Or, rather, it is only through one’s own death that one might truly gain such knowledge.
Though, surely, people in the old system were animate. For, it might even be said that they worked like zombies….
Like zombies, Capitalists were buried (by work and by dept) until they had given up hope of ever seeing the light of day again. Then, they were dug out. As such their bodies were alive. But their will was dead. And, without a will of their own, they would stand immobile all day unless told what to do by their masters (those who buried them, in the first place).
Only within a system of taxation does a need for representation arise. For, how can any person presume to represent another? How can they, that is, except that the person being represented cannot represent himself. Specifically, the person being represented must already be dead (as has been suggested).
GLORY
Whereupon, a soldier is dead who does fight to his death. Thereupon, an army of soldiers do fight. But, for this, they should be mad (for that is how people will be who would be dead). Poor souls! And thereby, most people die long before their bodies do.
Glory was dead like that. And he was mad. And he was ready to fight. And for these reasons he made a good Rep.
Not at first, to be sure. But after Glory came to the attention of The Joint, he became a good Rep. He was oppressed. He suppressed. He was repressed. He became depressed. And then, he was so easily impressed!
Glory looked up to aggressive people like any animal will who has been domesticated. And, like a dog, Glory had been…
Fixed: Glory’s father kicked him out of the house at 17 because Daddy wanted to have sex with Mommy 24-7 without being bothered by Glory. So he was cut off from the only woman he could ever love. And he became homeless.
Broken: On the streets, Glory would ask people for help. But soon, he realized this didn’t pay very well. And so, he found a scam.
Taken in: Glory would buy water for a nickel a bottle and then sell it for a dollar. All the while, he was looking for any old queer who might support him… or a job. Though, either way, he had no intention of ever putting out.
Set up: In jail, Glory was sodomized. When he was released, he went looking for girls to bugger. Using his metaphorical whip, he could tame any of them. He’d scratch their tummy with it. Then he’d hit them over the head with it. And so, unsure of what to expect, they would back up and roll over when he pulled it out.
(Glory often imagined what the inside of his own hole was like. He contemplated this as he inserted things there. He felt dirty like that. And, he liked feeling this way).
Put down: Being with girls would always make Glory feel like less of a man. Women seemed to be laughing at him. They’d call him names (Homo). And this turned him on! Then, ashamed of his feelings, he’d reassert his masculinity (sometimes with a little too much bravado).
Domesticated: And in this way, Glory became a man like those he met in prison. True, sometimes he would still purr like a pussycat (though he meant to growl like a lion). But more often, he would snap… when he might have, otherwise, been provided for.
Glory regressed: Wasn’t he a child when he first realized that all girls have their manhood taken from them this way? Yes! That’s why he felt sick to his stomach when he looked down there.
Glory re-membered: In Jr. High, he’d simulate this feeling of disgust by pulling the wings off of flies or by torturing some other small animal. (And sometimes, he would set fire to things and feel hot all over. Those times, he’d have strange dreams and wake up with his sheets all wet).
Then: He had fantasized about being in the military. He wanted to visit dirty places, to hurt people, and to start fires. He needed to find cheaper prostitutes. And he wished that he could die… so that he could be a hero!
Now: He was a man. So, he abused men. He’d take out his whip to them, he’d get himself a stiff one, and then (because he could afford to) he’d pay a woman to love to him. Like his father?
Now and then: He was a hero…. Like his father.
So, this is how Glory came to speak of his superiors without finding any fault: He became them. And so, he was sent forth to gather other souls to them.
The Complex (Part 1)
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The complex began amidst scattered charities, private foundations, and government welfare agencies. At that time, it was popular for TV programs to allow viewers to vote on their favorite competitors for a cell fee. And this became feasible enough that government sponsored talent contests could be instituted in lieu of national lotteries.
In line with this new focus, the requirements for government benefits became more and more skill oriented.
Private foundations extended their backing to a greater number of promising individuals. And charities expanded their support of the arts to include more of the skilled crafts. Both were hoping to capitalize on the new competency mandates. Soon, these organizations were awarded oversight of public assistance programs. And this quickly resulted in one centralized network whose main function was to provided funds for anyone of any talent.
Meanwhile, people had also started using their personal devices to vote for each other (for fun). But since these votes could be instantly tallied to determine an individual’s growth and potential, brokers started evaluating people along with other stocks. And because this information was available on the net and could easily be accessed by anyone with a smart card, credit (and eventually cash) was being completely phased out in favor of privilege.
A person’s privileges-earned came to be calculated by a fairly simple formula. The formula took into consideration value, worth, votes cast, votes received, and the weight of each vote (which, in turn, was based on the value or worth of the individual casting the vote).
Value was determined by self-voting (it happened). Or value was determined by the number of times a person voted for someone who voted for him in return (couples played this game). Plus, value increased as votes accumulated interest, over time.
Worth was determined by other’s votes (as people voted… instead of paying for services rendered, for instance). And when a person’s worth was not commensurate to their value, private foundations and public charities kicked in to make up the difference.
Wireless companies grew so huge and were bailed out so many times that they were finally forced to take responsibility for all charitable debt. Conn-Ed became the industry giant. Conn-Ed insured stock that was over valued in comparison to its worth. This led to even more frivolous uses of technology and Conn-Ed’s privileges skyrocketed. Plus, it gave them an interest in the winners.
The prison system and the military came to control all private debt. This firm became known as The Joint. The Joint bet on the stocks which were worth the most. And by having their hands in the pot, they became privy to important information about individual preference from which they created the psychological assessments they used to profile the losers.
Conn-Ed and The Joint merged but maintained their separate identities. This mirrored the two party system most people seemed to prefer. It gave the illusion of choice. It retained separation-of-powers, checks-and-balances and adversarial law. And, most importantly, it kept the economics of competition alive in the absence of a profit motive.
The Complex was formed. The Complex! The title referred to both the new government and also to the giant stadium mall they were building to house the national contest. The Contest determined who was qualified for top positions. And talents of every imaginable kind were verified at all levels by The Review.
A vote for your favorite candidate is a vote for your government!
People bought in. Some sold out. These coupled or joined groups. They became Demos. Demos voted for each other and saved their votes. And they came to understand themselves in terms of how much they were valued. The Demo mindset was most beneficial for anyone wishing to earn the benevolent support of Conn-Ed.
If people were skilled, however, they displayed their talents publicly. Every consecutive vote accrued weight and added to an individual’s self-worth. As such, these individuals (or Reps) were sure to attract The Joint’s attention. And, glory was bound to follow….
The Story! (All But)
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SUCH AS THIS IS (SO LIKE THAT)
by Brett Robertson
Introduction
Introducing the twin, Pride, and the twin, Power. They two, together, are as One: The Twin. Nothing gets by Him!
Synopsis
A disturbance takes place in the town of Devil’s Folly mirroring a revolt in Heaven. The transformation of The Twin suggests that the angels Gabriel and Michael, who monitor the side entrances, might switch guard. The central gates would be sealed! This could signal the beginning of a new kingdom in the world of Is Land.
Thesis
The Twin goes searching for manly talents only to discover that a feminine influence is making his world impotent… that is, until he brings a fraternal order to bear upon the chaos.
(As such, the story offers hope that women might yet be redeemed.)
Explanation
Traditionally, sons are said to enter Hell to save their mothers. In this tragicomedy, the kingdom of mothers and fathers is a parody of heaven. Therefore, the heroes join their world in an irreverent fashion and by a most profane communion. Thus, the story world might be understood as a fallen Eden where all the characters represent different embodiments of a twin divinity, God-Devil (conjoined).
The Science
The Null Hypothesis suggests there is a zero percent chance that we exist… to some degree of error. This is to say, mathematics establishes statistical correlation by denying causation.
In support of this hypothesis, Chaos Theory confirms that all possible combinations of error will occur on the border between chance-existence and non-existence.
However, we may similarly assert that we exist. There is a 100 % chance that we do! And we may claim this with 100 % certainty. That is, we may use the Null Hypothesis to prove causation.
Herein lie the laws of order and the formulae for creating life.
The Backstory (The Fiction)
Somewhere between the polarities represented by a father and a mother exists the potential for new life. But first He-She must have existed, The God-Devil. For certainly, If male and female make they him and her; then, male and female made He-She them?!
Because He existed in all space and time, physical representations of The One (The Father) and temporal permutations of The Only (The Son) were impossible. In effect, maleness could not manifest physically in a pure form. So Adam was created as the one and only hu-man. And man-kind came to embody a masculine spirit.
But for Her: Whereby, the one and only took the form of The One and The Only (coupled). As such, Adam lost dominion. Thus he was ashamed and hid his gender. And thereby, the spirit which breathed life into him came to be known by the emotion of women and couples.
So says the Jealous God!
And though the truth of this might be revealed in due time as it regards the potential of any man over time (that is, regarding Holy Spirit); yet, this book is not that book.
Front Plate
1) All possible combinations of a thing must occur on the border that encircles its two most extreme points and 2) this will be expressed in perfect order (The Law of Order).
Dedication
Because it came to pass, once upon a time, whereby God-Devil became incarnate as The One and The Only. And, for this, it was a miracle by which He-She became a twin. But, for that, He was not conjoined! And, as such, it remains a holy mystery in that the both of them were male.
This book is dedicated to The One and Only.
Preface
Fraternal twins. One coin. Two sides. Chance expressed as coexistent order. And so, any possible eventuality might be decided by a toss of their heads.
Entitlement
The story of how I, a fraternal twin, arrived at my solution to the problem of good and evil:
1. Either The One or The Other. 2. Neither The One nor The Other. 3. Both The One and The Other. 4. But The One not The Other….
SUCH AS THIS IS SO LIKE THAT
The Fellows (Character Types)
The Phalli (The Fellows)
Those of the Devil’s Folly are predominantly intersexuals: Due to interrelationships between males and females most individuals have become mixed. Men and women are coupled together. Many of the boys prefer girls over their own kind. And just as many girls seem to prefer boys.
People hide their genders by covering their sex organs in public. Some are ashamed of their birth sex. Others are afraid of being turned in public. Sexual pleasure is now used to dominate others.
Exclusive one-on-one relationships are formed, until death, to determine which individual will prevail. And so public life has become as a popularity contest where the winner might be chosen according to who receives the most votes. As well, intersexuals may hold group competitions (often of a violent nature) to decide between the winners and the losers. But anyway, the men are superior….
And this has led to the establishment, by women, of a system of just-us. Within this penile system men are re-formed. They are put into cages where they are trapped (as between the legs of a woman) until they submit and demean themselves. And though it is said that men in jail regularly turn out other men; more often, such merely become woe-men (either con-men or queens rather than kings).
Collectively, this culminates in war. Wars are mass entertainment for The In-humans. Of everything they understand, they understand opposition best. Such enslave mortal souls and send boys, in the prime of their lives, to kill their own in mass quantities or to be killed themselves. Sometimes these also return with their gender intact… mercifully.
So, cross dressers and transgenders are just a few of the fun and interesting characters one may find in Devil’s Folly. There are women who degrade themselves for money. And there are men who use weapons and other phallic substitutes (including special drugs) in an attempt to recover their masculinity. Plus those of natural talents sometimes put on displays.
Spectators respond by showing their teeth. Though, due to widespread impotence, this is no longer perceived as a threat. As such, it doesn’t indicate dominance or superiority. In fact, it is considered a sign of sociability: One emasculated individual often greets another this way in recognition and acceptance of our shared humiliation.
The Scion (An Offshoot World)
The DNA twins operate by a process I might call fraternization. In fraternization (as it is commonly understood… with a twist), two people from diverse backgrounds interact (loosely ‘mate’… in effect, they gossip ‘over the fence’). The resulting ‘child’ memetic idea (a combination of ideas which, perhaps, hasn’t been tried before) may signal the creation of something revolutionary (a new genre of music, for example… WE WILL ROCK YOU and the birth of rap… assuming Freddie Mercury wrote the song after fraternizing with an African American boy). Though perhaps it (also) creates a new epidemic disease (AIDS… ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST).
NOTE: The twin (fraternal) DNA also produces a (an evolutionary… or revolutionary) talent as a side-effect.
NOTE: AIDS operates by a similar process (AIDS DNA double helices are created, or translated, from single strand RNA… very unusual). [Am I suggesting here that the technology is a potential cure for AIDS? This universe is an alternate universe to the AIDS universe? Surely, within the world of AIDS, such ideas might arise.]
NOTE: Synthetic insulin was created by this method (an interesting story, the synthetic version isn’t as good but they took the natural insulins off the market thereby forcing people to use the synthetic version [This story gives a glimpse into the ethics of creating synthetic life]). Anyway, this is important because there is a name for the protein derived from such a process (and insulin is an example of this protein). If I want to use the correct terminology, I will have to pay better attention to the research (however, the simple story I began with is now starting to sound like a medical novel).
NOTE: Being utopian (heaven on earth) rather than dystopian, there are indications that certain negative social phenomenon are passing away (or have been done away with) namely war and jail… though perhaps even more telling, money (already mentioned) and… MATING?!?! [The story on one level is about a process that is LIKE human reproduction, genetic replication, but it is proposed as a technological advance to reproduction].
In fact, fraternization has modified [or is a modification of] (religion… religious) communion [a comparison between twins and marriage and a contrast between communion and consummation… only regarding that which is consumed, or transubstantiated as the case might be]. And so it is either a sacrilege, an improvement on creation [similar to how replication is an improvement on reproduction. A re-creation] (a god DNA) , or even the process for bringing about a second coming (JESUS’ DNA).
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Telling a story places the narrator at the center of conscience.
One may have a conscience, it is said. And one may be aware of ones conscience as a thing which operates independently of oneself. That is, one may be self aware and also self conscious. As such, one becomes conscientious (or consciously aware) and, perhaps, selfless.
So: The conscience exists in some relation to the self which is conscious. And it operates in some realm of the awareness. But it functions in a way that goes beyond oneself (and such that it seems, itself, to be conscious). In fact, the conscience is a self-sustaining process. It is the mechanism by which (self) consciousness leads to (self) awareness.
The way it does this is by reflecting those things which are selfish back to oneself (through self reflection) and so by attributing (or projecting) those things which cause one to be self conscious to the act of being conscious (or upon consciousness, itself). This is to say, conscience attributes degrees of self consciousness to the fact that one is conscious of oneself, to the degree that one is conscious of oneself, such that one is (only thereby) conscious.
In effect, the conscience removes self from the equation (self-conscious-awareness) allowing one to be consciously aware…. to be indirectly aware of the conscience… and so to be passively self aware (or aware of oneself as a person of conscience… and as one who is therefore capable of acting in a conscientious manner).
This passive self awareness may also make one self conscious in the sense that one has the feeling that one is being watched. And because of this, one may remove oneself from ones social reality and approach reality as one so removed. Such often become dissociated (they break from reality). But, they may break only to fix themselves. And they may fix themselves by fixating (fiction).
Transfixion is a fixation on death (by degree of unconsciousness). Cross fixation is transfixion upon a savior, or father figure (self reflection as introjection). Crucifixion (the prototype of cross fixation) is where the self finds itself in relation to death or mortality (introjection is thus understood as an internalization of the father… as conscience). And so cross transference is blame for crucifixion (self as father to oneself, or son as sire). Thereby, one may be with scion in a new consciousness, or con-scion).
Scion fixation, then, is the beginning of science fiction. (whether scion is understood as king, son, or graft).
We have found two paths to consciousness! We have become as one walking within consciousness. Perhaps we even create that consciousness as an alternate reality. We have seen how this can be accomplished through fixation. When the narrative involves an alternate time line, this kind of fixation is called fiction. And when that fiction also involves an alternate (social) reality, that form of fiction is science fiction.
Conscience is con-science is con-scion. Fixation is fiction. And scion fixation is science fiction. In science fiction, the alternate reality formed most often centers around a new technology because the scion, or son, is the father extended through time. This is to say, the first in line is the individual as archetype. And so the technique of the scion is science (such that the archetype is also the prototype).
A scientist shouldn’t create an invention which would kill himself. And, perhaps, this is prohibited by conscience. Well, military intelligence doesn’t invent… it steals inventions from ‘the enemy’. Anyway, a writer shouldn’t write so as to create a reality within which the story ‘dies’ (perhaps the reason some stories work and others don’t).
If the story crucifies the characters, then a dystopian society is indicated. And so, dystopian literature requires a hero who is outside of society. Yet in the world of science fiction, the realm should exist unto itself. And, as such, science fiction is utopian literature.
Science fiction is utopian literature. The science fiction writer creates a viable alternate reality. As such the reality of the science fiction writer is prophetic. And so the SciFi writer, himself, plays a part in the salvation of the world (even, perhaps, while creating a new earth… and a new heaven).
